Rubber overshoe



(No Model.)

J. P. ANSHUTZ.

RUBBER OVERSHOE.

No. 306,804. Patented Oct. 21, 1884.

iJNrTnn STATES FFlCE.

PATENT RUBBER OVERSHOE..

JPESZEIGATIDN forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,804, dated October 21, 1884.

Application filed March 21, 1884.

To all whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, JOHN P. ANSHUTZ. a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in India-Rubber Overshoes, of which invention the following is a specification.

This invention relates to ordinary gum or rubber shoes. Whenever the heel of a shoe or boot over which a rubber shoe is worn happens to be rounded or beveled off by use at the rear or at one side of the heel, the counter of the rubber shoe alittle above the hindmost portion of the face or flat part of the heel is crushed and broken, and the overshoe, whether old or new, made leaky and worthless in a few wearings.

My invention consists of a stiff or rigid plate placed within the rubber shoe upon the inner fiat face of the depression of the heel, and rounded out fully at the rear, for the purpose of keeping the face of the heel flat when ever the weight of the wearer comes on it, although the heel of the under shoe or boot may be unevenly worn off.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of a rubber shoe embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a plan of the stiffening- (No model.)

prevent noise from the contact of the heel-of 0 I the inner shoe or boot with the plate b when the wearer of the rubber shoe is walking.

I prefer to make the plate I) of wood and in the form shown in Fig. 2, although plates of a modified form, such as are represented in Figs. 4 5 3 and 4, are a little lighter and maybe em ployed.

I claim A rubber boot or shoe provided with the rigid plate secured within the heel depression 50 v on the fiat surface thereof, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

* JNO. P. ANSHUTZ.

WVitnesses:

G. EVERETT HILL, 0. F. Znrss. 

